Author: smoking glue gun

smoking glue gun is an independent chapbook press and online magazine. we look for the flashy, fresh, feminist, grotesque, avant-garde, minimalist, startling, etc.

raquel salas-rivera

December 8, 2016

“lo terciario” “the tertiary” / “[aguacero de] elementos evanescentes dentro del ciclo” “[downpour of] evanescent elements within the cycle” / “aquí no now ocupamos de cómo surge sea separación” / “here we don’t address the origins of that separation” … More raquel salas-rivera

angela veronica wong

January 19, 2015

Angela Veronica Wong is the author of the full-length poetry collection how to survive a hotel fire (Coconut Books) and the chapbook Dear Johnny, In Your Last Letter, which won a Poetry Society of America New York Fellowship. Her poetry has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry (with Amy Lawless) and is forthcoming in Please Excuse This Poem. Her fiction is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly. She is on … More angela veronica wong

isabel sobral campos

January 19, 2015

Originally from Portugal, Isabel Sobral Campos now lives in Brooklyn where she writes poems and teaches literature. Her poems have appeared in Gauss PDF and the gobbet.

alen hamza

January 19, 2015

Originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Alen Hamza immigrated to the United States when he was fifteen. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Better, Fence, Narrative, Phantom Limb, and elsewhere. He is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

beth kleinpeter

January 19, 2015

Photographs from the Louisiana State Fair Beth Kleinpeter is a freelance photographer working in New York and Louisiana. Find more of her work at bethkleinpeter.com.

daniel grammer

January 19, 2015

Daniel Grammer is an MFA candidate at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, where he reads and writes, and works with the Massachusetts Review. His work has appeared in plain china, If&When, delta journal, and in the inaugural issue of smoking glue gun.

haley rene thompson

January 19, 2015

Haley Rene Thompson is a poet, an editor for Slope Editions, and an MFA candidate at UMass Amherst. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in notnostrums, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, Everyday Genius, and Interrupture. Her chapbook, Coos & Ons, is forthcoming from Dikembe Press.

joshua r. helms

January 19, 2015

Joshua R. Helms is Assistant Editor for Corium Magazine and a queer feminist. Their work has appeared in various online journals, including alice blue review, DIAGRAM, Ghost Ocean Magazine, ILK Journal, PANK, and Word Riot, and various print journals, including Copper Nickel, Fairy Tale Review, Gertrude, New England Review, Phoebe, and Sonora Review. Machines Like Us, Josh’s first collection of poetry, was chosen by C. Dale … More joshua r. helms

katie hibner

January 19, 2015

Although she’s merely seventeen years old, Katie Hibner adores old people. She hails from Cincinnati, portrays a zombie in a low-budget film, and turns into a zombie after indulging in seven-hour marathons of “Downton Abbey.” Her poetry has been published in Dead Ink and Bone Bouquet. She has won a Scholastic Gold Key and third prize in Princeton University’s Leonard … More katie hibner

seth oelbaum

January 19, 2015

Seth Oelbaum was born in Clayton, Missouri and educated at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Scream Is Real and the founder of Bambi Muse.

kristina marie darling

January 19, 2015

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty books, which include Vow (BlazeVOX Books, 2013) and Scorched Altar: Selected Poems (BlazeVOX Books, 2014). Her awards include fellowships from Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, as well as grants from the Kittredge Fund and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She … More kristina marie darling

drew kalbach

January 19, 2015

Drew Kalbach is from Philadelphia. He is the author of Spooky Plan (Gobbet Press 2014). Read more of his work at his website, www.drewkalbach.com.

patrick dundon

January 19, 2015

Patrick Dundon is currently an MFA candidate at Syracuse University and serves as an assistant poetry editor for Salt Hill. His work has appeared in Poor Claudia and Toad: The Journal.

lynn melnick

September 1, 2014

Lynn Melnick is author of If I Should Say I Have Hope (YesYes Books, 2012) and co-editor, with Brett Fletcher Lauer, of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015).  She teaches at 92Y in NYC and is the social media & outreach director for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.  Her poems can be … More lynn melnick

kendra fortmeyer

September 1, 2014

  Kendra Fortmeyer received her MFA in fiction from the New Writer’s Project at UT Austin, where she completed her first novel.  She edits fiction for Broad! magazine.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PANK, NANO Fiction, apt, Juked, Fiddleblack, Corium and elsewhere.

joshua marie wilkinson

September 1, 2014

Joshua Marie Wilkinson‘s works include Swamp Isthmus, The Courier’s Archive & Hymnal, and Meadow Slasher (all from Black Ocean and Sidebrow Books). He lives in Tucson, where he edits The Volta and runs Letter Machine Editions.  

megan kaminski

September 1, 2014

from: Fortuna   Megan Kaminski is the author of Desiring Map (Coconut, 2012) and seven chapbooks for poetry, most recently Wintering Prairie. Her forthcoming book Deep City (Coconut, 2015) explores the body and the city as architectures in crisis. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where she teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Kansas and curates the Taproom Poetry Series downtown. She can … More megan kaminski

chris emslie

September 1, 2014

            Chris Emslie is assistant editor at ILK journal. His poems have appeared / are forthcoming in Salt Hill, Anti- and Upstart, among others. He lives in Tuscaloosa, where he is an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama.

amy lawless

September 1, 2014

Amy Lawless is the author of two books of poems, most recently My Dead (Octopus Books 2013), and her next collection BROADAX is forthcoming from Octopus Books in 2015. An audio chapbook from BROADAX is just out from Black Cake Records.  She lives in New York City.

ana maria caballero

September 1, 2014

            Ana Maria Caballero worked in finance, journalism, wine importation, and even for the Colombian government before recently becoming a mom.  Now she focuses her efforts on writing poetry and book thoughts, which can be read atwww.thedrugstorenotebook.co.  Her work has appeared in Big River Poetry Review, Elephant Journal, East Coast Ink, … More ana maria caballero

lily duffy

September 1, 2014

from: TACT         Lily Duffy is a poet from Maryland living in Colorado, where she studies poetry and teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in ILK, Hot Metal Bridge, Cloud Rodeo, Bone Bouquet, NAP, inter|rupture, wicked alice, and Dusie, among others. With Rachel … More lily duffy